A woman, observing the uncharacteristically longer line outside the men's room last night, pointed out to my wife, "At their age, they have to use the bathroom every ten minutes." This morning, I imagine twenty thousand stock brokers and ad execs, bankers, doctors and lawyers, butchers, bakers and very upscale candlestick makers (and a certain mystery writer as well), all smiling the same tired smile, all struggling to get to work on time. We stayed up late last night, twenty thousand of us, "unstuck" in time (to borrow a phrase from Kurt Vonnegut) celebrating our youth for sure, but that's far too simple of an explanation.
It's about identity, how music defines us and connects us. I said once, in another post, It's about how the boy still lives, somewhere inside the man, but also about how the man always lived, somewhere inside that boy. With one ear, I may have been listening to 2010, but the other ear was firmly planted in 1970.
James Taylor and Carole King, last night, at Madison Square Garden.
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this made me smile...I like the context...I think of those things too...
I know exactly what you speak of, I am well acquainted with a certain tom boy who scoffs at Oprah's notion that at a certain age women should stop wearing jeans.I
For me, that experience is Peter Noone. He lets me be 16 again for a short time. His music actually does the same thing for him. He is a teenager when he is on stage. Isn't time travel grand!
How awesome that must've been. Tapestry is one of the greatest albums of all time, IMO. So jealous.
Music is one of the most powerful forces I've ever experienced.
wonderful!
Oh, how I would have loved to see that concert! Or at least hear it, while standing in line to pee...oh wait, that was the older men, wasn't it?
I bought Tapestry when it first came out. I loved it, even though I was a rocker at heart. My dad hated it, and all because Carole vamped on the line "Ain't it good to know" in the song You've Got A Friend".
Nice!
I think I've met an upscale candle stick maker once actually.
Its nice to be young again, in the midst of your own culture for a while, like visiting a foreign country you go to regularly.